Analysis of Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Edward Albee's play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is a drama exploring the anxieties of modern life. By personalizing aspects of the epic Albee has inverted many of its features to create satire. This internalization pits individuals against each other and themselves. M. H. Abrams's definition of epic, in his book "A Glossary of Literary Terms," is used comparatively to demonstrate how Albee achieves satire. Abrams's first definition of epic is the closest to which "Who's Afra ....